ciferecaNinjo

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Concern over US travel visas prompts Ig Nobels to move its awards to Europe in c/europe@feddit.org

[–] ciferecaNinjo@fedia.io 1 points 1 month ago

Europe is also an unwise choice. As is Canada and the UK. Some of my recent threads on this:

The spread of travel authorisations (🇺🇸→🇬🇧→🇪🇺) has scrapped our visa-free travel rights. Also resulting in privacy loss and suppression of speech
What if Europeans want to petition Europe to negotiate for visa-free travel to the UK and Canada? Do petitions ever attempt to change the policy of 3rd countries?
UK imposes ETAs on EU citizens too, now. (the money grab: £16/2yrs)
Travel authorisation (ETA) scams -- both legal and illegal scams target Americans, and Europeans

It should be a place that has ETA-free travel, not just visa-free, if they want global attendees.

(Belgium, Brussels) médiathéque (media at public libraries) to be discontinued. Media will be wholly privatised. (fedia.io)

submitted 4 months ago by ciferecaNinjo@fedia.io to c/highseas@crazypeople.online

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Media access will be dropped from public libraries. Some politician decided that everyone has Internet with streaming subscriptions.

Or they figured it’s okay to marginalise those who do not. They assumed no one has a problem with patronising shitty surveillance capitalists like Netflix and Amazon.

IIUC, the only possible ways to watch movies in Belgium without feeding corporate databases is:

buying CDs/DVDs with cash
theaters (cash paid tickets)
the high seas (☠)
broadcast TV (does that exist in Brussels? My hand-held dvb-t player finds no signals to tune)

Only two of those options serves the poor. One is illegal and the other is content-constrained. And still out of reach for anyone who can’t afford Internet at home.